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3,737 | 1510_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Armado tells Moth to sing him some "sweet air" about love, and Moth willingly obliges. The servant also instructs Armado on how best to court Jaquenetta in a most comical and entertaining way, making great use of word play. Even without the help of his aside comments, it is easy to tell that Moth is mocking his compani... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"The King of Navarre's park.",
"[Enter ARMADO and MOTH.]",
"ARMADO.\nWarble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.",
"MOTH [Singing.]\nConcolinel,--",
"ARMADO.\nSweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give\nenlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither; I mus... |
3,738 | 1510_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene takes place in the park, where the princess and her companions are hunting. Once again the Princess displays an agility of mind as she twists around words and phrases, leaving the forester with whom she speaks completely befuddled and at a loss for words. Time and again, he tries desperately to retract his w... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"The King of Navarre's park.",
"[Enter the PRINCESS, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, LORDS,\nATTENDANTS, and a FORESTER.",
"PRINCESS.\nWas that the King that spurr'd his horse so hard\nAgainst the steep uprising of the hill?",
"BOYET.\nI know not; but I think it was not he.",
"PRINC... |
3,739 | 1510_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This scene introduces two new characters - Holofernes, who is a pedantic schoolteacher, and Sir Nathaniel, who is a curate that is greatly impressed with the bookish knowledge of Holofernes. These two, along with the constable Dull, are involved in an utterly senseless debate on the age of the deer killed by the prince... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same.",
"Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL.",
"NATHANIEL.\nVery reverent sport, truly; and done in the testimony of\na good conscience.",
"HOLOFERNES.\nThe deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe as\nthe pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of caelo,\nthe sky, ... |
3,740 | 1510_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Biron enters, reading another poem he has written for Rosaline; in it, he attempts to justify his feelings despite his vow to the King. When the King approaches, Biron moves out of sight but in hearing distance. The hidden lord listens with amazement as the King reads from his own poem of love to the princess. The come... | [
"SCENE III.",
"The same.",
"[Enter BEROWNE, with a paper.]",
"BEROWNE. The king he is hunting the deer: I am coursing myself: they have\npitched a toil: I am tolling in a pitch,--pitch that defiles:\ndefile! a foul word! Well, sit thee down, sorrow! for\nso they say the fool said, and so say I, and I am the f... |
3,741 | 1510_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this short scene, Armado asks Holofernes and Nathaniel to help him prepare "some delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antic, or firework" with which to amuse the French company, explaining that the King requested it. Holofernes suggests they enact the Masque of "The Nine Worthies" and offers to play three... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"The King of Navarre's park.",
"[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL.]",
"HOLOFERNES.\nSatis quod sufficit.",
"NATHANIEL.\nI praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have\nbeen sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty\nwithout affection, audacious without imp... |
3,742 | 1510_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The princess and her ladies have received love letters and tokens of affection from the four "book-mates." They show their gifts to each other and complain about the verbosity of the letters. Rosaline is of the opinion that there is "much in the letters, nothing in the praise." Katherine states that she has been presen... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Before the Princess's pavilion.",
"[Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE and MARIA.]",
"PRINCESS.\nSweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,\nIf fairings come thus plentifully in.\nA lady wall'd about with diamonds!\nLook you what I have from the loving king.",
"ROSALINE.\nMad... |
3,736 | 1510_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Princess of France and her entourage arrive to conduct business between the King of France and the King of Navarre. In order to try to keep his vows, the King of Navarre tells the Princess that she is not allowed inside the castle, and has to camp on the hill outside of it. The Princess and her ladies are insulted ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"The King of Navarre's park. A pavilion and tents at a\ndistance.",
"[Enter the PRINCESS OF FRANCE, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET,\nLORDS, and other Attendants.]",
"BOYET.\nNow, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:\nConsider who the king your father sends,\nTo whom he sends, and what... |
3,737 | 1510_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Armando is sitting at his house, again talking to his pageboy about his love for the peasant woman. The boy, making silent jibes at his lord, listens as his master professes his love for Jaquenetta. With the boys help, he decides to write a letter to his love, and ends up freeing Costard to deliver it. While on his way... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.",
"The King of Navarre's park.",
"[Enter ARMADO and MOTH.]",
"ARMADO.\nWarble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.",
"MOTH [Singing.]\nConcolinel,--",
"ARMADO.\nSweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give\nenlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither; I mus... |
3,738 | 1510_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While the Princess and her ladies are hunting, Costard approaches them with the letter for Rosaline. The Princess takes the letter, and Boyet reads it aloud. However, Costard accidentally gave the royal party the letter meant for Jaquenetta. The court is confused but realizes who Armando is. They ask Costard again who ... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"The King of Navarre's park.",
"[Enter the PRINCESS, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, LORDS,\nATTENDANTS, and a FORESTER.",
"PRINCESS.\nWas that the King that spurr'd his horse so hard\nAgainst the steep uprising of the hill?",
"BOYET.\nI know not; but I think it was not he.",
"PRINC... |
3,739 | 1510_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The constable, the curate, and the pendant sit and comment about the deer the Princess killed on her hunt. As they talk, they are approached by Jaquenetta who asks them to read her the letter she has received from Armando. They read it, and realize that the letter was delivered into the wrong hand. They tell Jaquenetta... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same.",
"Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL.",
"NATHANIEL.\nVery reverent sport, truly; and done in the testimony of\na good conscience.",
"HOLOFERNES.\nThe deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe as\nthe pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of caelo,\nthe sky, ... |
3,740 | 1510_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Berowne enters the hall alone and laments on his love for Rosaline. He sees someone coming and ducks into a hiding place observing the newcomer who turns out to be the King. The King too, professes his love to the air, not knowing that one of his followers is listening. Ferdinand has fallen for the Princess of France a... | [
"SCENE III.",
"The same.",
"[Enter BEROWNE, with a paper.]",
"BEROWNE. The king he is hunting the deer: I am coursing myself: they have\npitched a toil: I am tolling in a pitch,--pitch that defiles:\ndefile! a foul word! Well, sit thee down, sorrow! for\nso they say the fool said, and so say I, and I am the f... |
3,741 | 1510_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The pendant, the constable, and the curate sit at dinner discussing different things. Their conversation falls to the Lord Armando whom they dislike. Armando enters with the boy and tells the men that he has been put in charge of the evening's festivities that the King is throwing for the Princess of France. He asks th... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"The King of Navarre's park.",
"[Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL.]",
"HOLOFERNES.\nSatis quod sufficit.",
"NATHANIEL.\nI praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have\nbeen sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty\nwithout affection, audacious without imp... |
3,742 | 1510_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Princess and her ladies gather and the Princess shows them a jewel and some poetry that Ferdinand sent her. She is happy, but the women begin to argue about the validity of his love. Rosaline then shows her own gifts that Berowne bestowed upon her. Katherine then too is asked to show the gifts that Dumaine sent to ... | [
"SCENE II.",
"The same. Before the Princess's pavilion.",
"[Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE and MARIA.]",
"PRINCESS.\nSweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,\nIf fairings come thus plentifully in.\nA lady wall'd about with diamonds!\nLook you what I have from the loving king.",
"ROSALINE.\nMad... |
3,743 | 1108_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Welcome to Verona...at least we think we're in Verona. The only indication Shakespeare gives us about the location is in the play's title. Two BFFs, Valentine and Proteus, are in the middle of a long and emotional goodbye. You see, Valentine is embarking on an adventure so he might learn a thing or two about "the wonde... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.",
"Verona. An open place",
"Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS",
"VALENTINE. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of... |
3,744 | 1108_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Julia is lounging around her garden having a little girl talk with her woman in waiting, Lucetta. Julia is in desperate need of some advice about the following: Should she fall in love? If so, which one of her dozens of suitors should she hook up with? Julia ticks off a few names of guys who are drooling ove... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Verona. The garden Of JULIA'S house",
"Enter JULIA and LUCETTA",
"JULIA. But say, Lucetta, now we are alone, Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love? LUCETTA. Ay, madam; so you stumble not unheedfully. JULIA. Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy... |
3,745 | 1108_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Milan, Speed helps Valentine put on his gloves and finds a third glove that belongs to Silvia--the girl with whom Valentine has recently fallen head over heels in love. Speed teases Valentine about his crush and says that Valentine's been moping around like a lovesick puppy: sighing, folding his arms, singing l... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"Milan. The DUKE'S palace",
"Enter VALENTINE and SPEED",
"SPEED. Sir, your glove. VALENTINE. Not mine: my gloves are on. SPEED. Why, then, this may be yours; for this is but one. VALENTINE. Ha! let me see; ay, give it me, it's mine; Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine! Ah, Silvia! Sil... |
3,746 | 1108_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Verona, Julia and Proteus say a teary goodbye before Proteus departs on his trip. After Julia begs Proteus to be faithful to her, the couple exchange rings and "seal the bargain with a holy kiss." Proteus says he'll be true to Julia, and if a time should come when he isn't pining for her, he hopes that he'll be... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Verona. JULIA'S house",
"Enter PROTEUS and JULIA",
"PROTEUS. Have patience, gentle Julia.\n JULIA. I must, where is no remedy.\n PROTEUS. When possibly I can, I will return.\n JULIA. If you turn not, you will return the sooner.\n Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.\n ... |
3,747 | 1108_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lance and Crab enter the stage and Lance makes a big speech to the audience about how he must accompany Proteus to the "Emperor's" court in Milan. Lance's entire family is upset that Lance is leaving. His mom's "weeping," his dad's "wailing," his sister's "crying," the maid's "howling," etc. The only member of the fami... | [
"SCENE III.",
"Verona. ANTONIO'S house",
"Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO",
"ANTONIO. Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that\n Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister? PANTHINO. 'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son. ANTONIO. Why, what of him? PANTHINO. He wond'red that your lordship\n Would suffer ... |
3,748 | 1108_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Duke's court in Milan, Silvia and Valentine are busy flirting like two "courtly lovers." Meanwhile, a guy named Thurio sneers at the happy twosome. Speed notices that Thurio is jealous, so he does what all of Shakespeare's clownish servants do best--he starts trouble. Before we know it, Thurio and Valentine are ... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Milan. The DUKE'S palace",
"Enter SILVIA, VALENTINE, THURIO, and SPEED",
"SILVIA. Servant! VALENTINE. Mistress? SPEED. Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you. VALENTINE. Ay, boy, it's for love. SPEED. Not of you. VALENTINE. Of my mistress, then. SPEED. 'Twere good you knock'd him. Exit SILVIA. Servant... |
3,749 | 1108_act_2,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The two servants, Speed and Lance appear on stage with Lance's dog, Crab. Speed invites Lance to an alehouse and then asks how things went when Proteus said goodbye to Julia. Lance says things went fine. Speed wants to know if they're going to get married. As the dialogue continues, Speed can't get a straight answer fr... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Milan. A street",
"Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally",
"SPEED. Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Padua. LAUNCE. Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hang'd, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid... |
3,750 | 1108_act_2,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Proteus appears alone on stage and delivers a big speech to the audience , which takes up the entire scene. We'll break it down in a second, but the speech boils down to Proteus deciding to do what's best for Proteus. At first, Proteus acknowledges that, if he leaves Julia and wrongs Valentine by loving "fair Silvia," ... | [
"SCENE VI.",
"Milan. The DUKE's palace",
"Enter PROTEUS",
"PROTEUS. To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;\n To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;\n To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn;\n And ev'n that pow'r which gave me first my oath\n Provokes me to this threefold perjury:\n Lo... |
3,751 | 1108_act_2,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back in Verona, Julia and Lucetta brainstorm about ways for Julia to travel to Milan without losing her "honour." Lucetta advises Julia to stay home and wait it out - Proteus will be back eventually. Julia's not hearing any of this. She's in love and wants to be with Proteus, pronto. Julia decides to dress up like a bo... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"Verona. JULIA'S house",
"Enter JULIA and LUCETTA",
"JULIA. Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me; And, ev'n in kind love, I do conjure thee, Who art the table wherein all my thoughts Are visibly character'd and engrav'd, To lesson me and tell me some good mean How, with my honour, I may unde... |
3,752 | 1108_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Valentine and Speed have fled to a forest between Milan and Mantua, where they encounter a group of outlaws. One of the outlaws says "stick em' up" and Valentine proceeds to explain that he's got nothing for the roadside robbers to steal. The outlaws are impressed when they hear that Valentine has been banis... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"The frontiers of Mantua. A forest",
"Enter certain OUTLAWS",
"FIRST OUTLAW. Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger.\n SECOND OUTLAW. If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.",
"Enter VALENTINE and SPEED",
"THIRD OUTLAW. Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye; If not, ... |
3,753 | 1108_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Proteus stands outside Silvia's window in the moonlight. He tells the audience Silvia has been spurning his advances. She's also been reminding him of his friendship with Valentine and his commitment to Julia. Thurio shows up with a band of musicians and they all serenade Silvia. Julia enters with the Host, who leads h... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Milan. Outside the DUKE'S palace, under SILVIA'S window",
"Enter PROTEUS",
"PROTEUS. Already have I been false to Valentine,\n And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.\n Under the colour of commending him\n I have access my own love to prefer;\n But Silvia is too fair, too true, too ho... |
3,754 | 1108_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Silvia asks her dear friend, Eglamour, if he'll travel with her to find Valentine. It's too dangerous for Silvia to travel alone. Eglamour knows a thing or two about love and heartbreak so he agrees to help Silvia. They decide to meet up tonight at Friar Patrick's cell . | [
"SCENE III.",
"Under SILVIA'S window",
"Enter EGLAMOUR",
"EGLAMOUR. This is the hour that Madam Silvia\n Entreated me to call and know her mind;\n There's some great matter she'd employ me in.\n Madam, madam!",
"Enter SILVIA above, at her window",
"SILVIA. Who calls? EGLAMOUR. Your servant and yo... |
3,755 | 1108_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lance and his dog, Crab, are on stage. Lance tells the audience a story about how Crab was caught "a pissing" under the Duke's table and Lance took the blame for it so Crab wouldn't be whipped. He also reveals that he once took the blame for Crab when the dog killed a neighbor's geese. Lance begs Crab not pee on any "g... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Under SILVIA'S Window",
"Enter LAUNCE with his dog",
"LAUNCE. When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look\nyou,\n it goes hard- one that I brought up of a puppy; one that I\nsav'd\n from drowning, when three or four of his blind brothers and\n sisters went to it. I have taugh... |
3,756 | 1108_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Friar Patrick's cell, Eglamour patiently waits for Silvia, who has planned to meet him there. Silvia rushes in and says they need to hurry because she's afraid spies have been following her. They run off to the forest between Milan and Mantua. | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"Milan. An abbey",
"Enter EGLAMOUR",
"EGLAMOUR. The sun begins to gild the western sky,\n And now it is about the very hour\n That Silvia at Friar Patrick's cell should meet me.\n She will not fail, for lovers break not hours\n Unless it be to come before their time,\n So muc... |
3,757 | 1108_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the Duke's court in Milan, Thurio asks Proteus to tell him what Silvia thinks of him. Proteus answers him with what sounds like praise, but could be interpreted in less than favorable terms. Which is what Julia, who is standing nearby as Sebastian does. For every compliment Proteus giveThurio, she offers an alternat... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Milan. The DUKE'S palace",
"Enter THURIO, PROTEUS, and JULIA as SEBASTIAN",
"THURIO. Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit? PROTEUS. O, sir, I find her milder than she was; And yet she takes exceptions at your person. THURIO. What, that my leg is too long? PROTEUS. No; that it is too little. ... |
3,758 | 1108_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the forest, the three outlaws have captured Silvia and plan to take her to their leader . The Third Outlaw says something like, "Don't worry, our leader isn't going to assault you." We also learn that when Eglamour saw the outlaws, he hightailed it out of there, leaving Silvia to fend for herself. Silvia rolls her e... | [
"SCENE III.",
"The frontiers of Mantua. The forest",
"Enter OUTLAWS with SILVA",
"FIRST OUTLAW. Come, come.\n Be patient; we must bring you to our captain.\n SILVIA. A thousand more mischances than this one\n Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently.\n SECOND OUTLAW. Come, bring her away.\n FIRST ... |
3,759 | 1108_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In another part of the forest, Valentine is alone and contemplates the perks of forest living. He likes the solitude and the sounds of nature because he can think about his love for Silvia without being disturbed. Plus, he doesn't have to deal with the chaos of court life. The only downside to this new lifestyle is tha... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Another part of the forest",
"Enter VALENTINE",
"VALENTINE. How use doth breed a habit in a man!\n This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,\n I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.\n Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,\n And to the nightingale's complaining notes\n Tune m... |
3,743 | 1108_act_i,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Two Gentlemen of Verona opens on a street in Verona as Valentine bids an emotional farewell to his dearest friend, Proteus. Valentine explains to Proteus that he must leave Verona for Milan because he believes that young gentlemen remain simple if they do not venture out to see the world. Proteus responds that his ... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.",
"Verona. An open place",
"Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS",
"VALENTINE. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of... |
3,744 | 1108_act_1,_scenes_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julia sits alone with Lucetta. Julia asks Lucetta to counsel her on how to fall in love. Lucetta replies that she should fall in love carefully, and not be caught by surprise. Julia lists all of her suitors for Lucetta, and asks Lucetta to pick for her the one she thinks most worthy of her love. Lucetta tells Julia tha... | [
"SCENE II.",
"Verona. The garden Of JULIA'S house",
"Enter JULIA and LUCETTA",
"JULIA. But say, Lucetta, now we are alone, Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love? LUCETTA. Ay, madam; so you stumble not unheedfully. JULIA. Of all the fair resort of gentlemen That every day with parle encounter me, In thy... |
3,760 | 1108_act_2,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Speed helps Valentine put on his gloves, only to realize that there is one glove too many. The third glove, we quickly realize, belongs to Silvia, the object of Valentine's affection. Valentine, however, is shocked when Speed refers to Silvia as "he that your worship loves" . Valentine interrogates Speed on the source ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.",
"Milan. The DUKE'S palace",
"Enter VALENTINE and SPEED",
"SPEED. Sir, your glove. VALENTINE. Not mine: my gloves are on. SPEED. Why, then, this may be yours; for this is but one. VALENTINE. Ha! let me see; ay, give it me, it's mine; Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine! Ah, Silvia! Sil... |
3,747 | 1108_act_2,_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Proteus' servant Launce, dragging his dog, Crab, and dilly-dallying en route to his master's departing ship, complains that Crab is the surliest dog that ever lived. He laments that his family cried bitterly when he bade them farewell upon his departure for the emperor's court, while the dog has continued neither to sp... | [
"SCENE III.",
"Verona. ANTONIO'S house",
"Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO",
"ANTONIO. Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that\n Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister? PANTHINO. 'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son. ANTONIO. Why, what of him? PANTHINO. He wond'red that your lordship\n Would suffer ... |
3,761 | 1108_act_2,_scenes_5-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Speed welcomes Launce to Milan. Launce replies that no one can truly feel welcome in a town until someone buys him a shot of liquor at the local tavern. Speed offers to do so, but first inquires after the status of the relationship between Proteus and Julia. Launce confuses Speed, implying through a series of puns that... | [
"SCENE V.",
"Milan. A street",
"Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally",
"SPEED. Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Padua. LAUNCE. Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never undone till he be hang'd, nor never welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid... |
3,751 | 1108_act_ii,_scene_vii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Julia asks Lucetta to help her devise a plan to travel to Milan to visit Proteus. Lucetta warns Julia that it is a long and dangerous journey, counseling her to wait for his return. Julia insists that a "true-devoted pilgrim is not weary" . Lucetta responds that she wants only to ensure that Julia's love does not excee... | [
"SCENE VII.",
"Verona. JULIA'S house",
"Enter JULIA and LUCETTA",
"JULIA. Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me; And, ev'n in kind love, I do conjure thee, Who art the table wherein all my thoughts Are visibly character'd and engrav'd, To lesson me and tell me some good mean How, with my honour, I may unde... |
3,762 | 1108_act_4,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A group of outlaws overtakes the recently banished Valentine and Speed, who are traveling in the forest between Milan and Mantua. Instead of robbing Valentine on the spot, the outlaws listen to his tale of woe. Valentine wisely adds in a few spicy details about slaying a man in a fierce confrontation. The outlaws are m... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.",
"The frontiers of Mantua. A forest",
"Enter certain OUTLAWS",
"FIRST OUTLAW. Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger.\n SECOND OUTLAW. If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.",
"Enter VALENTINE and SPEED",
"THIRD OUTLAW. Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye; If not, ... |
3,763 | 1108_act_4,_scenes_3-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Silvia calls upon Sir Eglamour, a friend, to help her escape her "most unholy match" to the detested Thurio . She yearns to reunite with Valentine but knows she cannot travel to Mantua alone. Eglamour is a safe chaperone for Silvia, as he has taken a vow of chastity since the death of his beloved wife. Silvia and Eglam... | [
"SCENE III.",
"Under SILVIA'S window",
"Enter EGLAMOUR",
"EGLAMOUR. This is the hour that Madam Silvia\n Entreated me to call and know her mind;\n There's some great matter she'd employ me in.\n Madam, madam!",
"Enter SILVIA above, at her window",
"SILVIA. Who calls? EGLAMOUR. Your servant and yo... |
3,764 | 1108_act_5,_scenes_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eglamour and Silvia rendezvous at Friar Patrick's cell. Proteus is interrogating Sebastian about his interaction with Silvia when the Duke interrupts them, announcing Silvia's disappearance. Proteus, Sebastian, and the Duke form a search party with Thurio and ride off to find Silvia. Meanwhile, Silvia is captured by th... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.",
"Milan. An abbey",
"Enter EGLAMOUR",
"EGLAMOUR. The sun begins to gild the western sky,\n And now it is about the very hour\n That Silvia at Friar Patrick's cell should meet me.\n She will not fail, for lovers break not hours\n Unless it be to come before their time,\n So muc... |
3,759 | 1108_act_v,_scene_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Valentine sits alone in the forest, extolling the virtues of life in the middle of nature. He hears shouts in the distance and hides. Proteus, Silvia, and Julia enter. Proteus pleads with Silvia to give him one kind glance as payment for rescuing her from the outlaws who would have "forced your honour and your love" .... | [
"SCENE IV.",
"Another part of the forest",
"Enter VALENTINE",
"VALENTINE. How use doth breed a habit in a man!\n This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,\n I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.\n Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,\n And to the nightingale's complaining notes\n Tune m... |
3,765 | 7370_chapter_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locke opens the Second Treatise by referring to the First Treatise, in which he refuted Sir Robert Filmer's arguments upholding the political theory of patriarchalism, or, the divine right of kings. Filmer claimed that God gave Adam authority and dominion over the world, but Locke disagreed. He noted that it was imposs... | [
"CHAPTER. I. AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL, EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT",
"Sect. 1. It having been shewn in the foregoing discourse,",
"(<i>1</i>). That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by\npositive donation from God, any such authority over his children, or\ndominion over ... |
3,766 | 7370_chapter_ii:_of_the_state_of_nature | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locke begins his second chapter with the explanation that all men exist in a state of perfect freedom and equality. Their actions and choices are unfettered and cannot be limited by other men. All men are born in the exact same state, with no one individual having privileges or advantages over another. Only God is able... | [
"CHAPTER. II. OF THE STATE OF NATURE.",
"Sect. 4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its\noriginal, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and\nthat is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose\nof their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within ... |
3,767 | 7370_chapter_iii:_of_the_state_of_war | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The law of nature dictates that self-preservation is of utmost importance. Thus, if any man is threatened by another he is in a state of war with him and has the right to destroy him. This is similar to being threatened by a wild beast; it is only logical that one may kill a wolf or a lion that threatens him. A state o... | [
"CHAPTER. III. OF THE STATE OF WAR.",
"Sect. 16.",
"THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction: and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate settled design upon another man's life, puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intentio... |
3,768 | 7370_chapter_iv:_of_slavery | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locke judges that the natural state of man is to be free from the dominion of other men and their laws. If a man is under the power of the law, it should only be through his own consent. When he does consent to be governed, the laws cannot go beyond what the trust placed within the government warrants. Locke disputes F... | [
"CHAPTER. IV. OF SLAVERY.",
"Sect. 22. THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior\npower on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of\nman, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of\nman, in society, is to be under no other legislative power, but that\ne... |
3,769 | 7370_chapter_v:_of_property | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locke begins his discussion of property by alluding to Filmer's theory of patriarchalism, which suggested that only an absolute monarch descended from Adam would have any right to property because God gave Adam dominion over all the land. Locke disagrees and writes that he will spend the rest of this chapter demonstrat... | [
"CHAPTER. V. OF PROPERTY.",
"Sect. 25. Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men,\nbeing once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to\nmeat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for their\nsubsistence: or revelation, which gives us an account of those grants\n... |
3,770 | 7370_chapter_vi:_of_paternal_power | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In this chapter, Locke takes up the subject of paternal power, which he would prefer to label "parental" power. He objects to the notion that all parental power is invested in the father. Scripture itself places power in both the father and the mother and requires children to obey both. This propensity to consider pare... | [
"CHAPTER. VI. OF PATERNAL POWER.",
"Sect. 52. IT may perhaps be censured as an impertinent criticism, in a discourse of this nature, to find fault with words and names, that have obtained in the world: and yet possibly it may not be amiss to offer new ones, when the old are apt to lead men into mistakes, as this ... |
3,771 | 7370_chapter_vii:_of_political_or_civil_society | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | God did not create man for him to be alone; his natural inclination is to be in a society with other men. The types of relationships include those between a man and wife, a man and his children, and a master and servant. The relationship between a man and his wife was the first society created , and it did not only exi... | [
"CHAPTER. VII. OF POLITICAL OR CIVIL SOCIETY.",
"Sect. 77. GOD having made man such a creature, that in his own judgment,\nit was not good for him to be alone, put him under strong obligations of\nnecessity, convenience, and inclination to drive him into society, as\nwell as fitted him with understanding and lang... |
3,772 | 7370_chapter_viii:_of_the_beginning_of_political_societies | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Political societies cannot exist without the consent of the governed. Only with consent can man give up his natural liberty and enter into a civil society with other men. No man who does not want to join can be compelled to do so. Once a civil society is formed the majority rules. Majority rule is necessary because it ... | [
"CHAPTER. VIII. OF THE BEGINNING OF POLITICAL SOCIETIES.",
"Sect. 95. MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and\nindependent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the\npolitical power of another, without his own consent. The only way\nwhereby any one divests himself of his nat... |
3,773 | 7370_chapter_ix:_of_the_ends_of_political_society_and_government | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locke revisits many of the discussions of previous chapters here. He begins by asking rhetorically why any man would willingly leave the state of nature, a state where he is completely free and equal, to be governed by an authority. This is because the other men in a society still in a state of nature cannot be suppose... | [
"CHAPTER. IX. OF THE ENDS OF POLITICAL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT.",
"Sect. 123. IF man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said;\nif he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the\ngreatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom? why\nwill he give up this empire, a... |
3,774 | 7370_chapter_x:_of_the_forms_of_a_commonwealth,_and_chapter_xi:_of_the_extent_of_legislative_power | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In chapter X, Locke details the different forms a commonwealth may take. If the power is placed in the hands of a majority and the officers of the law are appointed, then it is a democracy. If the power is placed in the hands of a few men, it is an oligarchy. If the power is placed in the hands of one, it is a monarchy... | [
"CHAPTER. X. OF THE FORMS OF A COMMON-WEALTH.",
"Sect. 132. THE majority having, as has been shewed, upon men's first\nuniting into society, the whole power of the community naturally in\nthem, may employ all that power in making laws for the community from\ntime to time, and executing those laws by officers of t... |
3,775 | 7370_chapter_xii:_of_the_legislative,_executive,_and_federative_power_of_the_commonwealth,_and_chapter_xiii:_of_the_subordination_of_the_powers_of_the_commonwealth | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even though the legislature is the most important power of a government, it does not necessarily need to be in session continuously. Those with the legislative power should not also exercise executive power because they may exempt themselves from following the laws or try to make the laws suit themselves. Those that ma... | [
"CHAPTER. XI. OF THE EXTENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER.",
"Sect. 134. THE great end of men's entering into society, being the\nenjoyment of their properties in peace and safety, and the great\ninstrument and means of that being the laws established in that society;\nthe first and fundamental positive law of all com... |
3,776 | 7370_chapter_xiv:_of_prerogative,_and_chapter_xv:_of_paternal,_political,_and_despotical_power,_considered_together | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In a commonwealth where the legislative and executive powers are separate from each other, the executive power is given several things. Since the legislature cannot be in session continuously and is unable to foresee everything that may befall the commonwealth, the executive is given the ability to make decisions for t... | [
"CHAPTER. XIV. OF PREROGATIVE.",
"Sect. 159. WHERE the legislative and executive power are in distinct\nhands, (as they are in all moderated monarchies, and well-framed\ngovernments) there the good of the society requires, that several things\nshould be left to the discretion of him that has the executive power:\... |
3,777 | 7370_chapter_xvi:_of_conquest,_and_chapter_xvii:_of_usurpation | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The history of mankind is filled with wars and conquest. While some may have mistaken conquest for the consent of the people, it is not actually the same thing as setting up a government. Even if a conqueror does destroy one commonwealth's government, he cannot set up a new one until the people consent. An unjust conqu... | [
"CHAPTER. XV. OF PATERNAL, POLITICAL, AND DESPOTICAL POWER, CONSIDERED TOGETHER.",
"Sect. 169. THOUGH I have had occasion to speak of these separately\nbefore, yet the great mistakes of late about government, having, as I\nsuppose, arisen from confounding these distinct powers one with another,\nit may not, perha... |
3,778 | 7370_chapter_xix:_of_the_dissolution_of_government | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Locke takes up the subject of the dissolution of government, first distinguishing between the dissolution of society and the dissolution of government. Society is destroyed by foreign conquest; the union that brought men from the state of nature into a commonwealth is now dissolved and they are returned to the previous... | [
"CHAPTER. XIX. OF THE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNMENT.",
"Sect. 211. HE that will with any clearness speak of the dissolution of\ngovernment, ought in the first place to distinguish between the\ndissolution of the society and the dissolution of the government. That\nwhich makes the community, and brings men out of the ... |
3,779 | 383_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens in its primary setting, a chamber in the "old-fashioned" country house of Mr. Hardcastle. Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle enter in the midst of a pleasant argument. Mrs. Hardcastle is perturbed at her husband's refusal to take trips into London, while he insists he is not interested in the "vanity and affectatio... | [
"SCENE--A Chamber in an old-fashioned House.",
"Enter MRS. HARDCASTLE and MR. HARDCASTLE.",
"MRS. HARDCASTLE. I vow, Mr. Hardcastle, you're very particular. Is\nthere a creature in the whole country but ourselves, that does not take\na trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little? There's the\ntwo... |
3,780 | 383_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act II begins in Hardcastle's house. Hardcastle and several "awkward servants" enter, the former instructing them on how to appear sophisticated for the expected guests. One of the servants, Diggory, brags over his ability to hold his hands properly while serving, but Hardcastle stops him and chides him for talking too... | [
"SCENE--An old-fashioned House.",
"Enter HARDCASTLE, followed by three or four awkward Servants.",
"HARDCASTLE. Well, I hope you are perfect in the table exercise I have\nbeen teaching you these three days. You all know your posts and your\nplaces, and can show that you have been used to good company, without... |
3,781 | 383_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act III is set solely in Hardcastle's home. Hardcastle enters alone, confused over what his friend Charles Marlow meant by describing the young Marlow as modest, considering the young man's behavior thus far. Hardcastle is particularly worried that the behavior will put off his daughter. Kate enters, in a plain dress p... | [
"Enter HARDCASTLE, alone.",
"HARDCASTLE. What could my old friend Sir Charles mean by recommending\nhis son as the modestest young man in town? To me he appears the most\nimpudent piece of brass that ever spoke with a tongue. He has taken\npossession of the easy chair by the fire-side already. He took off his... |
3,782 | 383_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All of Act IV takes place in Hardcastle's house. Hastings and Constance enter, bringing news that Charles Marlow is expected to visit the house that evening. Since he would surely recognize Hastings and thereby ruin the plan for elopement, the lovers know they must move with speed. Hastings has meanwhile sent the caske... | [
"Enter HASTINGS and MISS NEVILLE.",
"HASTINGS. You surprise me; Sir Charles Marlow expected here this\nnight! Where have you had your information?",
"MISS NEVILLE. You may depend upon it. I just saw his letter to Mr.\nHardcastle, in which he tells him he intends setting out a few hours\nafter his son.",
"... |
3,783 | 383_act_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act V begins in Hardcastle's house. Hastings enters with a servant, who tells him that Mrs. Hardcastle and Constance left a while before, and must be far away. The servant also tells him that Charles Marlow has arrived, and Hastings, who still wants to avoid detection, heads to the garden even though he has little fait... | [
"Enter HASTINGS and Servant.",
"HASTINGS. You saw the old lady and Miss Neville drive off, you say?",
"SERVANT. Yes, your honour. They went off in a post-coach, and the\nyoung 'squire went on horseback. They're thirty miles off by this\ntime.",
"HASTINGS. Then all my hopes are over.",
"SERVANT. Yes, s... |
3,784 | 43936_chapters_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothy lived on the great and desolate Kansas prairie with her Uncle Henry and her Aunt Em. They had a very small house and Dorothy had a little bed in the corner of the single room. There was a small hole in the floor that served as a cyclone cellar. Everywhere Dorothy looked was flat and gray. The sun and wind were ... | [
"Chapter I. The Cyclone.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle\nHenry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.\nTheir house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried\nby wagon many miles. T... |
3,785 | 43936_chapters_5-8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Dorothy woke up she was thirsty so the travelers found a small stream for her to drink from and bathe in. Dorothy and The Scarecrow heard a groaning nearby and went to investigate. They discovered a man made completely of tin who stood motionless. Dorothy asked if he had groaned and he assented, saying he had been... | [
"Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto\nhad long been out chasing birds and squirrels. She sat up and looked\naround her. There was the Scarecrow, still standing patiently in his\ncorner, waiting for he... |
3,786 | 43936_chapters_9-11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Tin Woodman and The Scarecrow were standing near the edge of the field when they spotted a yellow wildcat chasing a little gray field mouse across the grass. The Tin Woodman knew the mouse was outmatched, so he lifted his axe and swung it, lopping the beast's head off. The field mouse was grateful and told them she... | [
"Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"\"We cannot be far from the road of yellow brick, now,\" remarked the\nScarecrow, as he stood beside the girl, \"for we have come nearly as\nfar as the river carried us away.\"",
"The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he hear... |
3,787 | 43936_chapters_12-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Guardian at the gate informed them there was no straight road to the land of the Winkies, and that the Wicked Witch of the West would find them and make them her slaves. He told them, once hearing that they were going to try and destroy her, to keep to the West where the sun sets. As they walked the Witch noticed t... | [
"Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of\nthe Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the\nGates lived. This officer unlocked their spectacles to put them back in\nhis great ... |
3,788 | 43936_chapters_20-24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Tin Woodman created a ladder and one by one they ascended the china wall and sat on top. All were in awe of what they saw below: a tiny china town decked out in bright colors. Strangest of all were the little people that lived there; there were milkmaids and princesses and princes, all dressed brightly and no talle... | [
"Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"While the Woodman was making a ladder from wood which he found in the\nforest Dorothy lay down and slept, for she was tired by the long walk.\nThe Lion also curled himself up to sleep and Toto lay beside him.",
"The Scarecrow watc... |
3,789 | 43936_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meet Dorothy, an all-American gal who lives with her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Middle-of-Nowhere, Kansas. They live on a rickety farm that sounds like it would get terrible reviews on Airbnb. Farm tour: it won't take long, because there's only one room. Well, two, if you count the cyclone cellar, which we have a feeli... | [
"Chapter I. The Cyclone.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle\nHenry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.\nTheir house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried\nby wagon many miles. T... |
3,790 | 43936_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothy wakes up with a jolt. Guess the house has finally landed. She opens the door and goes outside. Everything is super beautiful and weird. The people of the land are also odd. Let's just say they have a peculiar taste in fashion. Also, they're smaller than average-sized adults. A small old woman thanks Dorothy for... | [
"Chapter II. The Council with The Munchkins.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"She was awakened by a shock, so sudden and severe that if Dorothy\nhad not been lying on the soft bed she might have been hurt. As it\nwas, the jar made her catch her breath and wonder what had happened;\nand Toto put his cold... |
3,791 | 43936_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothy's hungry so she and Toto grab a snack and get ready for their road trip to the Emerald City. She notices her shoes are looking a bit shabby, so she decides to try on the dead witch's silver shoes. They fit perfectly. And they're off...down the yellow brick road, of course. Dorothy's feeling strangely cheerful. ... | [
"Chapter III How Dorothy saved the Scarecrow.",
"[Illustration]",
"When Dorothy was left alone she began to feel hungry. So she went\nto the cupboard and cut herself some bread, which she spread with\nbutter. She gave some to Toto, and taking a pail from the shelf\nshe carried it down to the little brook and fi... |
3,792 | 43936_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the three walk, they notice the road is beginning to get rough. The farms are fewer and further between. When they stop for lunch, Dorothy's relieved to find out that the Scarecrow doesn't eat. Good thing, because she didn't pack much food. Over the meal, Dorothy tells her new friend about Kansas. He thinks it sound... | [
"Chapter IV. The Road through the Forest.",
"[Illustration]",
"After a few hours the road began to be rough, and the walking grew so\ndifficult that the Scarecrow often stumbled over the yellow brick,\nwhich were here very uneven. Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or\nmissing altogether, leaving holes that To... |
3,793 | 43936_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's morning, and Dorothy's thirsty. She wants to find water. The Scarecrow doesn't get why, because he doesn't have to do human things like eat and sleep. After Dorothy breakfasts, she and the Scarecrow hear someone groaning. Dorothy traces the sound to a man...made out of tin? Yes, that's definitely a man made out of... | [
"Chapter V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto\nhad long been out chasing birds and squirrels. She sat up and looked\naround her. There was the Scarecrow, still standing patiently in his\ncorner, waiting for he... |
3,794 | 43936_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gang is back on the yellow brick road and now it's really tough going. Things are growling at them from the darkness. Dorothy's nervous, but the tin man reassures her that they're safe. He's not worried about anything since his oilcan is nearby. The Scarecrow is impervious to harm, being made of straw and all. And ... | [
"Chapter VI. The Cowardly Lion.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration: \"_You ought to be ashamed of yourself!_\"]",
"[Illustration]",
"All this time Dorothy and her companions had been walking through the\nthick woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these\nwere much covered by dried branches ... |
3,795 | 43936_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gang can't find anyone to host them for the evening, so it looks like they'll be camping. Dorothy's running even lower on food, so she's feeling a bit desperate. The Lion offers to go kill her a deer for dinner. The tin man asks him not to so he doesn't have to cry any more. The Scarecrow forages for some nuts and ... | [
"Chapter VII. The Journey to The Great Oz.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"They were obliged to camp out that night under a large tree in the\nforest, for there were no houses near. The tree made a good, thick\ncovering to protect them from the dew, and the Tin Woodman chopped a\ngreat pile of wood wit... |
3,796 | 43936_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Everyone's up and at 'em and feeling great. They're so glad to have gotten through the forest in one piece. Of course, they still need to cross the river, but the tin man has made considerable progress on the raft. Soon enough they're ready to roll. Everything's going well at first...that is, until the current starts p... | [
"Chapter VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"Our little party of travellers awakened next morning refreshed and\nfull of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and\nplums from the trees beside the river.",
"Behind them was the dark forest they had passed s... |
3,797 | 43936_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Wait. What's that sound? It's the growl of a wildcat chasing a mouse. The Tin Woodman, who think it's wrong for the cat to kill the mouse, kills the cat with his axe. Whoa, he's hardcore. The mouse, having avoided death, is super grateful. And as luck would have it, she's a queen. She orders her followers to do whateve... | [
"Chapter IX. The Queen of the Field Mice.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"\"We cannot be far from the road of yellow brick, now,\" remarked the\nScarecrow, as he stood beside the girl, \"for we have come nearly as\nfar as the river carried us away.\"",
"The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he hear... |
3,798 | 43936_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a time, the Lion wakes up. The gang tells him about the crazy mouse chariot that pulled him out of the poppies. Renewed, they set off on their journey to Oz. Soon enough they find the yellow brick road. Back on track! The area around the road is starting to show signs of life again. There are farms and fences and... | [
"Chapter X. The Guardian of the Gate.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"It was some time before the Cowardly Lion awakened, for he had lain\namong the poppies a long while, breathing in their deadly fragrance;\nbut when he did open his eyes and roll off the truck he was very glad\nto find himself still a... |
3,799 | 43936_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even with the special glasses, everyone's blown away by the bedazzled city. Literally everything is green, including the people. The group arrives at the palace, which is even more fancy than the city. A guard asks the travelers to wait while he consults with the wizard. The verdict's in and the wizard will see them. B... | [
"Chapter XI. The Wonderful Emerald City of Oz.",
"[Illustration]",
"Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles Dorothy and her\nfriends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City.\nThe streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble\nand studded everywhere with sparkl... |
3,800 | 43936_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The soldier leads the gang back to the gate. They give back their special glasses and set off on their way. They ask for the directions and are told to head west...which makes sense, given they're looking for the Wicked Witch of the West. Right? Dorothy notices that her new green dress has turned white. Interesting. As... | [
"Chapter XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of\nthe Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the\nGates lived. This officer unlocked their spectacles to put them back in\nhis great ... |
3,801 | 43936_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lion is psyched to hear the witch is dead. Dorothy sets him free, then she frees the Winkies. The Winkies are even more psyched. They've been enslaved for a long time. The Lion wishes that the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman could be there. Dorothy wonders if they can be rescued. They ask the Winkies to help. The Win... | [
"Chapter XIII. The Rescue",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"The Cowardly Lion was much pleased to hear that the Wicked Witch\nhad been melted by a bucket of water, and Dorothy at once unlocked\nthe gate of his prison and set him free. They went in together to\nthe castle, where Dorothy's first act was to... |
3,802 | 43936_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gang is having quite the time finding their way back to Oz. There's no road, so they don't have a good sense of direction. Everyone's starting to feel a little discouraged. They want to get back to Oz and get on with it! Toto is too depressed to chase butterflies. That's how you know it's bad. Dorothy has an idea: ... | [
"Chapter XIV. The Winged Monkeys",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"You will remember there was no road--not even a pathway--between\nthe castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City. When the four\ntravellers went in search of the Witch she had seen them coming, and\nso sent the Winged Monkeys to brin... |
3,803 | 43936_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's back to the Guardian of the Gates. He seems surprised to see the travelers back so soon. The Scarecrow explains that the witch is dead. The Guardian is super impressed. Everyone puts on their special glasses and heads into the Emerald City. The travelers are escorted back to their old rooms. They expect that Oz wi... | [
"Chapter XV. The Discovery of OZ, The Terrible.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"The four travellers walked up to the great gate of the Emerald City\nand rang the bell. After ringing several times it was opened by the\nsame Guardian of the Gate they had met before.",
"\"What! are you back again?\" he ... |
3,804 | 43936_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's morning and the Scarecrow is beside himself as he waits to go collect his new brain. Finally, it's time. Oz removes his head and stuffs it with bran, pins, and needles. Sounds like a breakfast cereal for robots, but guess what? Instant intelligence. The Scarecrow is thrilled. Time for the tin man to collect his he... | [
"Chapter XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"Next morning the Scarecrow said to his friends:",
"\"Congratulate me. I am going to Oz to get my brains at last. When I\nreturn I shall be as other men are.\"",
"\"I have always liked you as you were,\" said Dorothy, s... |
3,805 | 43936_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothy doesn't hear anything for three days and she's getting discouraged. Hang in there, girl. Meanwhile, her friends are enjoying their new treasures. It's Day Four, and Oz finally sends for her. He tells her the plan: he's going to make a hot-air balloon, and they'll fly into the unknown, hoping to light upon the U... | [
"Chapter XVII. How the Balloon was Launched.",
"[Illustration]",
"For three days Dorothy heard nothing from Oz. These were sad days\nfor the little girl, although her friends were all quite happy and\ncontented. The Scarecrow told them there were wonderful thoughts in\nhis head; but he would not say what they w... |
3,806 | 43936_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothy is crying bitter tears about the whole balloon thing. She feels like that was her last ticket to Kansas. Then again, on reflection, she thinks that maybe the balloon wasn't such a great plan. The Tin Woodman is crying for Oz like he's dead. He asks Dorothy to wipe his tears so he doesn't rust. The Scarecrow is ... | [
"Chapter XVIII. Away to the South.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to\nKansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had\nnot gone up in a balloon. And she also felt sorry at losing Oz, and\nso did her companions.",
"The T... |
3,807 | 43936_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gang leaves the Emerald City. On their way out, the Guardian of the Gates tells the Scarecrow that he needs to return ASAP to rule the land. Everyone's in a great mood. Toto's back to chasing butterflies, so you know all's well. They talk about Oz. Dorothy has come to the conclusion that he really was a good man. H... | [
"Chapter XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"The next morning Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl good-bye, and\nthey all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers, who\nhad walked with them as far as the gate. When the Guardian of the\nGate saw them again h... |
3,808 | 43936_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While the tin man is building the ladder, the Scarecrow wonders what lies beyond the wall. The tin man says there's no sense in worrying about it. Whatever is there is there. The ladder's finished and the Scarecrow is the first to go up. Dorothy's right behind him. Everyone's astonished by what's beyond the wall: a str... | [
"Chapter XX. The Dainty China Country.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"While the Woodman was making a ladder from wood which he found in the\nforest Dorothy lay down and slept, for she was tired by the long walk.\nThe Lion also curled himself up to sleep and Toto lay beside him.",
"The Scarecrow watc... |
3,809 | 43936_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The travelers are over the wall and in a nasty country filled with wetlands. Soon enough, they enter a forest. The Lion's pretty excited about being in the forest. The other travelers, not so much. They make camp for the evening. The next day, the group comes upon a group of animals that are clearly having some sort of... | [
"Chapter XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration]",
"After climbing down from the china wall the travellers found\nthemselves in a disagreeable country, full of bogs and marshes and\ncovered with tall, rank grass. It was difficult to walk far without\nfalling into muddy ho... |
3,810 | 43936_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having emerged from the forest, our travelers encounter a steep hill. After they climb it, a strange man with no arms approaches and tells them they shall not pass. The Scarecrow's like, sorry, this is happening. And then the harmless man's head shoots out from his body and knocks the Scarecrow down the hill. Oh dear. ... | [
"Chapter XXII. The Country of the Quadlings",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration: \"_The Head shot forward and struck the Scarecrow._\"]",
"[Illustration]",
"The four travellers passed through the rest of the forest in safety,\nand when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill,\ncovered from ... |
3,811 | 43936_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gang has a chance to clean up before they meet the witch. Finally, they're taken to the throne. Dorothy walks the witch through everything that's happened so far, and explains that she still wants to return to Kansas. Glinda thinks that shouldn't be a problem--she just needs the Golden Cap. The plan is that Glinda ... | [
"Chapter XXIII. The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish.",
"[Illustration]",
"[Illustration: \"_You must give me the Golden Cap._\"]",
"[Illustration]",
"Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of\nthe Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and\nthe Lion shook the... |
3,812 | 43936_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Here's Aunt Em! Dorothy runs into her arms. There's no place like home. | [
"Chapter XXIV. Home Again.",
"Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she\nlooked up and saw Dorothy running toward her.",
"\"My darling child!\" she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and\ncovering her face with kisses; \"where in the world did you come from?\"",
"\"From the... |
3,813 | 3825_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is raining in Covent Garden at 11:15 p.m. Clara complains that Freddy has not found a cab yet. Freddy returns to his mother and sister and explains that there are no cabs to be found. They chide him, and as he runs off to try again to find a cab, he knocks into Liza, a flower girl, spilling her flowers into the mud.... | [
"Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles\nblowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter\ninto the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there\nare already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in\nevening dress. They are all pe... |
3,814 | 3825_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day at 11:00 a.m., Higgins and Pickering are at Higgins's place on Wimpole Street. Higgins has just shown Pickering his Universal Alphabet, and they are about to break for lunch when Mrs. Pearce shows Liza in. She has cleaned up somewhat and wants it to be known that she arrived in a cab. She wants to take lan... | [
"Next day at 11 a.m. Higgins's laboratory in Wimpole Street. It is a\nroom on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for the\ndrawing-room. The double doors are in the middle of the back hall; and\npersons entering find in the corner to their right two tall file\ncabinets at right angles to one anot... |
3,815 | 3825_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A few months later, Higgins's mother is writing letters in her drawing room when she is interrupted by her son. She scolds him for turning up during her "at-home day," the day when she receives guests. Mrs. Higgins claims that her son scares off her guests. Higgins explains his bet with Pickering over Eliza and says th... | [
"It is Mrs. Higgins's at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. Her\ndrawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows\nlooking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in\nan older house of the same pretension. The windows are open, giving\naccess to a balcony with flowers in pots. If... |
3,816 | 3825_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At midnight on Wimpole Street, Eliza enters looking pale and tired, almost tragic. Pickering and Higgins ignore Eliza, talking about where Higgins's slippers are and whether there is any mail. They have been to a garden party, a dinner party, and the opera, and Eliza was extremely successful, fooling everyone. Higgins ... | [
"The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight. Nobody in the room. The clock\non the mantelpiece strikes twelve. The fire is not alight: it is a\nsummer night.",
"Presently Higgins and Pickering are heard on the stairs.",
"HIGGINS [calling down to Pickering] I say, Pick: lock up, will you. I\nshan't be going out aga... |
3,817 | 3825_act_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mrs. Higgins is in her drawing room when her parlor-maid enters and informs her that Pickering and Higgins are downstairs calling the police. Mrs. Higgins sends the parlor-maid upstairs to inform Eliza that the men are here and that she should not come until she is called. Higgins enters and explains that he is frantic... | [
"Mrs. Higgins's drawing-room. She is at her writing-table as before. The\nparlor-maid comes in.",
"THE PARLOR-MAID [at the door] Mr. Henry, mam, is downstairs with\nColonel Pickering.",
"MRS. HIGGINS. Well, show them up.",
"THE PARLOR-MAID. They're using the telephone, mam. Telephoning to the\npolice, I thin... |
3,813 | 3825_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's a dark and stormy night, and a crowd of people are seeking refuge from the rain in front of a church in London's Covent Garden market. Among them are an older woman and her daughter , their son Freddy , an old, well-dressed military man, a poor young flower girl with a thick Cockney accent, and a strange man stand... | [
"Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles\nblowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter\ninto the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there\nare already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in\nevening dress. They are all pe... |
3,814 | 3825_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, in Higgins's house on 10 Wimpole Street, Higgins and the Colonel are talking shop when Mrs. Pearce, Henry's very reasonable maid, tells him that a girl with a funny accent has come to the door. Thinking he might get some good material from her, he decides to let her in. The flower girl from the night befo... | [
"Next day at 11 a.m. Higgins's laboratory in Wimpole Street. It is a\nroom on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for the\ndrawing-room. The double doors are in the middle of the back hall; and\npersons entering find in the corner to their right two tall file\ncabinets at right angles to one anot... |
3,815 | 3825_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act Three finds us at the apartment of Henry Higgins's mum. Higgins, it seems, wants to test his work at a party she'll soon be throwing. Mrs. Higgins does not approve of the idea - you get the feeling she doesn't approve of most things Higgins does - but Higgins doesn't listen. He's not one to take no for an answer. H... | [
"It is Mrs. Higgins's at-home day. Nobody has yet arrived. Her\ndrawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows\nlooking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in\nan older house of the same pretension. The windows are open, giving\naccess to a balcony with flowers in pots. If... |
3,816 | 3825_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Midnight at Wimpole Street, some months later. Eliza comes in, looking beautiful but tired. Higgins and Pickering stumble in, drunk and happy. They've just come from a bunch of fancy parties and, well, it turns out their scheme worked. Higgins has won the bet, and is too busy tooting his own horn to congratulate Eliza.... | [
"The Wimpole Street laboratory. Midnight. Nobody in the room. The clock\non the mantelpiece strikes twelve. The fire is not alight: it is a\nsummer night.",
"Presently Higgins and Pickering are heard on the stairs.",
"HIGGINS [calling down to Pickering] I say, Pick: lock up, will you. I\nshan't be going out aga... |
3,817 | 3825_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, the Colonel and Higgins show up at Mrs. Higgins's place looking for Eliza, who seems to have run away. Higgins is acting especially whiny, like a bratty child who's lost his favorite toy. Mrs. Higgins accuses the two men of scaring her off. Higgins can't handle the accusation. Woe is he. He's all conf... | [
"Mrs. Higgins's drawing-room. She is at her writing-table as before. The\nparlor-maid comes in.",
"THE PARLOR-MAID [at the door] Mr. Henry, mam, is downstairs with\nColonel Pickering.",
"MRS. HIGGINS. Well, show them up.",
"THE PARLOR-MAID. They're using the telephone, mam. Telephoning to the\npolice, I thin... |
3,813 | 3825_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Act I opens in Covent Garden under the portico of St. Paul's Church during a heavy summer rain immediately after a theatrical performance has let out. All types and levels of society are huddled here to avoid the rain. Mrs. Eynsford-Hill is complaining to her daughter Clara that her son Freddy has been gone an intolera... | [
"Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles\nblowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter\ninto the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there\nare already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in\nevening dress. They are all pe... |
3,814 | 3825_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts to Higgins' laboratory in his home in Wimpole Street. It is eleven o'clock the next morning, and Higgins has been giving Pickering some demonstrations of the types of equipment that he uses in recording sounds which can then be studied at leisure in a scientific manner. As Higgins finishes his demonstr... | [
"Next day at 11 a.m. Higgins's laboratory in Wimpole Street. It is a\nroom on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for the\ndrawing-room. The double doors are in the middle of the back hall; and\npersons entering find in the corner to their right two tall file\ncabinets at right angles to one anot... |
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